This article examines recent market behaviour of EU airlines. After a short descrip- tion of the EU liberalization … process the article continues to analyze the network related cost characteristics of airlines in the deregulated U.S. domestic … internal market. Different developments in network restructuring of EU airlines are described, indicating the first steps …

the ways in which banks compete. Using cross-country data from surveys of firms and banks and a measure of contestability … very low levels of contestability an increase in contestability increases small firm use of bank finance, for most … observations of contestability in the sample, an increase in contestability produces the opposite result. This also holds for …

positive effect on the leverage ratio. In addition, the results show that contestability in family firms plays a more relevant …

stagnation before deregulation, weak competition from sea carriers, the lack of charter airlines, the large ethnic Irish …

-deposit spread suggests that the levels of contestability and efficiency are low. A more in-depth analysis using stochastic frontier … contestability support the hypothesis that contestability in Colombia is subpar. Finally, the paper also explores some of the … potential determinants of efficiency and contestability for a sample of the 24 countries over the period 2004 – 2013. This …

The traditional description of Contestability theory considers the importance of potential entry threats in …